Once we make it out on the other side, we need to make this process better for posterity. Culture of elitism is causing so much anxiety and $$$. I think we can all agree that med school/undergrad "pedigree" is probably one of the worst variables to consider for residency app. We should judge people on their own merit (holistically). It makes me sad to see the lack of "training" diversity in academic programs; when most of the residents & faculty trained at the same "elite" institutions: Ivy League, Stanford, Hopkins, MIT etc. Programs say they care about DEI but the only 1 or 2 URMs they have trained at Harvard, Princeton, Stanford etc. This is why people feel the need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars at an elite private institution, so they an achieve their career goals or take on an unpaid RY to crank out papers for a big shot at an elite institution. This toxic culture of "elitism" has cost each of us so much $$ and family time; it has given us impostor syndrome, and serious FUCKING anxiety. We have to be better.